



I could have bought my HP Stream 11 at the Microsoft Store, which offers Signature editions of this and other PCs that do not include crapware. There are strategies for dealing with this. But boy do you pay for it in other ways: The HP Stream, like virtually all other new PCs regardless of price, is loaded down with crapware. It’s a great little PC, and as I noted in my HP Stream 11 and 13 Review, a tremendous value at just $200. But there’s a better way thanks to a small selection of utilities designed specifically to help remove this space- and attention-wasting nonsense. It’s one of the biggest downers in personal technology: you buy a new PC, take it home and set it up, and then spend hours investigating and removing the crapware that PC makers put on there.
